August 2022
The Real Game – The joys of watching cricket in whites, The Telegraph
As a member of the Karnataka State Cricket Association I have free entry to all matches played at the Chinnaswamy Stadium. However, I have never exercised that privilege in the case of the Indian Premier [...]
July 2022
Growing Old with the Telegraph, The Telegraph
Although I grew up in north India, the newspaper that came into our home was headquartered in a great city then called Calcutta. This was The Statesman, whose main edition was published in the first [...]
May 2022
In Praise of Desmond Tutu, The Telegraph
I have been thinking a great deal about South Africa these past few weeks, in part because of the Test series being played there, but mostly because of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, with whose passing the [...]
April 2022
The Mahatma’s Words, The Telegraph
One of the most remarkable individuals I have known was K. Swaminathan, a professor of literature from Madras who went on to become Chief Editor of the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi. Swaminathan was born [...]
For a Free Press: The Legacy of B G Horniman, The Telegraph
When, in 1995, Bombay was renamed Mumbai, it led to a spurt of such renamings of buildings, streets, parks, and railway stations in the city. However, a few dead foreigners were spared the fate of [...]
October 2021
The Sardar of the Kisans, The Telegraph
In 1931, the annual meeting of the Indian National Congress was held in the port city of Karachi. Vallabhbhai Patel was elected President. Early in his address, Patel remarked: ‘You have called a simple farmer [...]